Joyce Craig Surrenders Manchester to the Mob

So Manchester’s Mayor was on twitter today:

What I saw in Minnesota was a depraved and sadistic police officer kill a man while several other police officers aided or permitted it. I have no idea whether any of the officers involved were motivated by racial animus. I assume the State Attorney General and the U.S. Department of Justice will investigate and, if there was racial animus involved, that the appropriate civil rights charges will follow.

What I do know is that there is no “systemic racism” among the nation’s police in particular or among municipal employees in general. It’s behind a paywall, but Heather MacDonald uses facts to demolish the claim of “systemic racism”:

The officers who arrested George Floyd must be held accountable for their excessive use of force and callous indifference to his distress.

But the charge of systemic police bias was wrong during the Obama years and it remains so today.

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— Heather Mac Donald (@HMDatMI) June 2, 2020

So, if Mayor Joyce were really concerned about addressing what we saw in Minnesota she would be looking into whether there are similar bad police officers in Manchester and getting rid of such police officers.

Instead, she’s giving Black Lives Matter a voice in city governance. From the aforementioned Heather MacDonald on Black Lives Matter in 2016:

This from 2017:

The FBI released its official crime tally for 2016 today, and the data flies in the face of the rhetoric that professional athletes rehearsed in revived Black Lives Matter protests over the weekend.  Nearly 900 additional blacks were killed in 2016 compared with 2015, bringing the black homicide-victim total to 7,881. Those 7,881 “black bodies,” in the parlance of Ta-Nehisi Coates, are 1,305 more than the number of white victims (which in this case includes most Hispanics) for the same period, though blacks are only 13 percent of the nation’s population. The increase in black homicide deaths last year comes on top of a previous 900-victim increase between 2014 and 2015.

Who is killing these black victims? Not whites, and not the police, but other blacks. In 2016, the police fatally shot 233 blacks, the vast majority armed and dangerous, according to the Washington Post. The Post categorized only 16 black male victims of police shootings as “unarmed.” That classification masks assaults against officers and violent resistance to arrest. Contrary to the Black Lives Matter narrative, the police have much more to fear from black males than black males have to fear from the police. In 2015, a police officer was 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male was to be killed by a police officer. Black males have made up 42 percent of all cop-killers over the last decade, though they are only 6 percent of the population. That 18.5 ratio undoubtedly worsened in 2016, in light of the 53 percent increase in gun murders of officers—committed vastly and disproportionately by black males. Among all homicide suspects whose race was known, white killers of blacks numbered only 243. 

Black Lives Matter has been pushing a false narrative about “systemic racism” since at least the Obama years. And now Mayor Joyce has given them a formal voice in the governance of Manchester’s largest city. Shame on her.

But that’s not all. Per her tweets, Mayor Joyce is also ordering “diversity and cultural competency training for all city employees.” What this training is in reality is Soviet-style indoctrination about all whites … even the poorest and most downtrodden … benefiting from “white privilege,” while all blacks … even the most affluent and prosperous … are victims. It teaches the city employees to see and deal with people on the basis of their skin color, and does NOTHING to address the problem we saw in Minnesota – depraved and sadistic police officers who have no business being police officers.

Shame on Joyce Craig.